Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Denmark and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Tubeway Army to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by The Motions. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lungfish record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cluster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
Fatback Band,
The Trojans,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Moody Blues,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Faraquet,
Matthew Halsall,
Symarip,
Aloha Tigers,
Jacques Brel,
Janne Schatter,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
ABBA,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Knickerbockers,
Model 500,
Arab on Radar,
The Walker Brothers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Ultimate Spinach,
Swans,
Heaven 17,
Siglo XX,
The Motions,
Quando Quango,
the Normal,
The Remains,
E-Dancer,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Mad Mike,
Tres Demented,
The Pretty Things,
Kool Moe Dee,
Soulsonic Force,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Reuben Wilson,
Judy Mowatt,
In Retrospect,
New York Dolls,
Sandy B,
Country Joe & The Fish,
New Order,
Glenn Branca,
Bluetip,
The Doors,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Monochrome Set,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Soul Sonic Force,
Jeff Mills,
The Gladiators,
Rites of Spring,
Kerrie Biddell,
Section 25,
Eurythmics,
Funkadelic,
Brick,
Thee Headcoats,
Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon, Pantaleimon.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.